WEED VS BOOZE

Those opposed to legalizing marijuana are of the 'slippery slope' persuasion.  The illusion that those fighting making it legal really care about the mental and physical safety of all potential abusers are hiding the fact that many are now enormously powerful and wealthy because it is illegal.  Those who would abuse marijuana, for the most part, have no difficulty what soever in obtaining their fill.  Those who do not want to sneak around the law but who would probably only use it socially, stay away from the illegal pushers.

Paul Armentano wrote an article citing that, of the two, alcohol poses a greater danger.  It was President Nixon who launched the War on Drugs which today sees 800,000 a year in the US arrested for violating drug laws.  Since those citizens are not highly valued members of society and bear a stigma, not enough people with respect, status and clout have tackled trying to make the world see the wrongness of our present method of handling the problem. With prostitution, the prostitutes, not the pimps, are punished.  The worst of the penalties for hiring the services for this pastime is (rarely) publishing the names of the customers.

Amerstano writes  "For more than three decades, America's marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it's time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.?  For once in our country, can we not listen to the researchers, users, physicians  who study and write about the effects rather than religious zealots who truly believe their message against Weed use is coming directly from God  and from rhetoric, long established.

To read his whole article, click here.